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English Literature for BCS Exam

1. The Augustan Age is -
=1702 - 1745
2. Which period is the period of Renaissance?
=1500 – 1650
3. Which is the age of Chaucer?
=1350 – 1400
4. The Elizabethan period is -
=1558 – 1603
5. The Victorian period is -
=1832 - 1901
6. The Neo-Classical period is -
=1660 – 1798
7. Preparation for the Renaissance was -
=1500 – 1558
8. When does the Modern period begin?
=1914
9. The Postmodern period begin?
=After 1939
10. Which is the Romantic period?
=1798 – 1832
11. Anglo-Norman period was -
=1066 – 1350
12. Which is the commonwealth period?
=1649 – 1660
13. Which is the Restoration period?
=1660 – 1700
14. Middle English period was -
=1066 – 1500
15. Anglo-Saxon period/Old English period was -
=450 – 1066
16. A self-contradictory statement that hides a rational meaning is -
=Paradox
17. Which is the first epic of Anglo-Saxon period?
=Beowulf (Poem)
18. Who is the “Father of English learning”?
=Venerable Bade
19. A division of poem is called -
=Stanza
20. Who wrote “ Beowulf ”
=An unknown person
21. Who is the first historian is English literature?
=Venerable Bade
22. How many lines are there in Beowulf?
=3000
23. Who is the king of Wassex?
=Alfred the Great
24. Who is the founder of English prose?
=Alfred
25. Explicit comparison between two different things is called-
=Simile
26. Whose famous work is ‘‘Opus Majus’’?
=Roger Beacon’s
27. Who is the author of ‘‘Cor Deas Homo’’?
=Anselm
28. Which is the second period of English literature?
=Anglo-Norman period
29. Roger Beacon was a famous literary person of -
=Anglo-Norman period
30. Who is the father of English poetry?
=Chaucer
31. Chaucer’s poetical works are broadly divided into -
=3 periods
32. A lyric poem or song in praise of a god or hero is called -
=Hymn
33. Who is the author of ‘the legend of Good Woman’?
=Chaucer
34. Who were Chaucer’s contemporaries?
=Langland and Wycliff
35. Who translated the Bible into English for the first time?
=John Wycliff
36. An ancient story about gods and goddesses and their mysterious forces is called -
=Myth
37. Who is the first English Printer?
=William Coxton
38. Who is the ‘‘Father of English prose’’?
=John Wycliff
39. Who established the first English printing press and when?
=William Coxton, 1476
40. ‘‘Renaissance’’ means -
=Rebirth
41. Renaissance is ---------- word.
=An Italian
42. Where did the Renaissance start from?
=Italy
43. Where did the Renaissance begin and when?
=In Italy, 1400 A.D
44. A salient feature of the Renaissance is -
=Humanism
45. Who is the first sonneteer of the English literature?
=Sir Thomas Wyatt
46. A kind of drama that provides sensational entertainment is called -
=Melodrama
47. Which is the first English printed anthology (collected works) of English lyrics?
=Tottle’s Miscellany
48. Who wrote ‘‘Utopia’’?
=Sir Thomas Moor
49. Which is the first fruit of the Renaissance?
=Tottle’s Miscellany
50. Sir Thomas Moor was a famous ---- in Renaissance period.
=Essayist
51. Which is known as the golden age of English literature?
=The Elizabethan age
52. The Elizabethan age was replete (supplied) with -
=Songs and lyrics
53. The Elizabethan age is called -
=A nest of singing birds
54. Who is called the poet’s poet?
=Edmond Spencer
55. A short novel usually of thirty or forty thousand words is called -
=Novelty
56. Who wrote “The Ruins of Time”?
=Edmond Spencer
57. Which is the first English tragedy?
=Ferrex and Porrex
58. Which is known as “Gorbodue” -
=Ferrex and Porrex
59. Whose famous work is the metrical (musical) translation of Homer’s “Iliod” and “Odyssey”?
=Champman’s
60. Which is the first drama is English literature?
=Ralph Royster Doyster
61. Which is the first tragic drama is English literature?
=Gorboduc
62. An allegorical story of human characters which teaches a religious moral is called -
=Parable
63. Who wrote revenged tragedy in English literature for the first time?
=Thomas kyd
64. Who is the greatest dramatist of English literature before Shakespeare?
=Christopher Marlowe
65. Whose comedies are known as comedy of Humorous?
=Ben Johnson’s
66. Comedy of Humorous is related to -
=Medical Theory
67. How many plays has Shakespeare written?
=37
69. Who is the greatest dramatist of English literature?
=Shakespeare
70. On which date Shakespeare born and died?
=23rd April
71. Who is called the ‘‘Bird of Avon’’?
=Shakespeare
72. Who are the university wits?
=Those playwrights who were highly educated in Oxford & Cambridge
73. Francis Bacon was a famous ---- of the university wits.
=Essayist
74. Who is the greatest prose writer of the Elizabethan age?
=Richard Hooker
75. In which year were five writers of the University Wits born?
=1558
76. Who used the term “The metaphysical poet”?
=John Donne
77. Who is the metaphysical poet?
=Cowely
78. Who is called the ‘‘poet of love’’?
=John Donne
79. Secular (worldly) poets are called -
=Cavalier (inconsiderate, haughty) poets
80. Who is the Cavalier poet?
=Robert Herrick
81. Robert Herrick was a -
=Clergyman
82. Who is the most commending prose writer of the “puritan period”?
=John Bunyan
83. Who is the greatest writer of the “puritan period”?
=John Milton
84. John Milton was called the ‘‘Great master of ----’’
=Verse
85. Paradise lost is divided into ---- books.
=Twelve
86. The restoration period is related to the king -
=Charles II
87. Who was known as the “Father of Modern English Criticism”?
=John Dryden
88. Who was the most noted poet of the Restoration period before John Dryden?
=Edmond Walter
89. The Augustan period took its name from the name of ----, a Roman king.
=Augustas
90. Who is called the ‘‘dmock heroic poet’’?
=Alexander pope
91. Gulliver’s Travel is the bitterest satire of the ---- century.
=18th
92. Who wrote first novel in English literature in 1740?
=Samuel Richardson
93. The first novel of Samuel Richardson is -
=Pamela
94. Who is regarded as the ‘‘Father of English novel’’?
=Henry
95. Who completed the first English in Dictionary in 1755?
=Dr. Samuel Johnson
96. The first daily in English language is -------
=The Daily Courant
97. The first full-fledged biography in English was ‘‘Life of ----’
=Dr. Johnson
98. The first theatre in England was established in ----
=1576
99. William Blake was a -------
=Painter
100. Which part of 19th century is regarded as the Romantic period?
=The first half
101. ‘Lyrical Ballads’ is a collection of -
=Romantic poems
102. The first English daily newspaper, The Daily Courant, appeared -
=In London in 1702
103. ‘Supernaturalism’ is a salient feature of -
=The Romantic period
104. William Wordsworth is called the ‘Poet of Nature’? Because
=He deals with nature in his poems
105. Who is called the ‘Poet of childhood’ and ‘lake poet’?
=William Wordsworth
106. When did William Wordsworth become ‘‘Poet of Laureate’’?
=In 1839
107. Who is called the ‘‘Poet of Supernaturalism’’ and ‘‘Opium Eater’’?
=Coleridge
108. Who is sometimes called ‘‘Rebel poet’’?
=Lord Byron
109. Shelley was an ----.
=Atheist
110. Shelley was called the ‘‘---- poet’’
=Revolutionary
111. John Keats was ----.
=Physician
112. John Austen was a ----.
=Female novelist
113. Which is written for Shelley’s last beloved Emilia Viviania?
=Episychidion
114. Victorian period was marked with -
=Scientific & Techno- logical advancement
115. English Idyll is a collection of varied poems by -
=Alfred Tennyson
116.
117. How many lyrics are found in the poem ‘‘In Memorium’’?
=131
118. Who introduced “Dramatic monologue” in his poems?
=Robert Browning
119. Who was the greatest Victorian novelist?
=Charles Dickens
120. A kind of play in which tragic and comic scenes are mingled is-
=Tragi-Comedy
121. Whose name is Mary Ann Evans?
=George Eliot
122. Who is the last of the Victorian poet?
=Algernon Charles Swingburne
123. Where was Rudyard Kipling born?
=In India
124. Rudyard Kipling was a -
=Journalist
125. Who was H.G. Wells?
=A great science fiction writer
126. Who is “Eric Btair”?
=George Orwell
127. Who translated ‘‘The Gitanjali’’ into English collaboration with Rabindra Nath Tagore?
=W.B. Yeats
128. Who was the editor of “The Gitanjali’’
=W.B. Yeats
129. S.T. Eliot was born in -
=America
130. G.B. Shaw was -
=Irish
131. What kinds of play did G.B. Shaw write?
=Problem play
132. Samuel Beckett was ---- origin.
=Irish
133. What kind of play did Samuel Beckett write?
=Absurd play
134. What is the real name of Mark Twain?
=Samuel Longhorne Elemens
135. Who was “Bertrand Russel”?
=An American philosopher
136. Bertrand Russel was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in-
=1950
137. Who was regarded as the national poet in America?
=Walt Whitman
138. “Novum Organum” is written by -
=Francis Beacon
139. “The Temple” is written by -
=George Herbert
140. “Hesperieds” is written by -
=Robert Herrick
141. “Paradise Lost/ Paradise Regained” is written by -
=John Milton
142. “Pilgrim’s Progress” is written by -
=John Bunyan
143. “The Old Bachelor” is written by -
=William Congreve
144. “Robinson Crusoe” is written by -
=Daniel Defoe
145. “The Good Nature Man” is written by -
=Oliver Goldsmith
146. Who wrote “Lyrical Ballads”?
=William Wordsworth and S.T. Coleridge
147. “Marriage of Heaven and Hell” is written by -
=William Blake
148. “The Excursion” is written by -
=William Wordsworth
149. “Ode on Dejection” is written by -
=S.T. Coleridge
150. “Ode to a Nightingle/ Pride and Prejudice” is written by -
=John Austen
151. “Alastor/ The Sirit of Solitude” is written by -
=Percy Byshe Shelley
152. “Endymion” is written by -
=John keats
153. “Anatomy of Melancholy” is written by -
=Burton
154. “The Revolt of Islam/ Adonais” is written by -
=P.B. Shelley
155. “Ulyssess/ The Falcon” is written by -
=Alfred Tennyson
156. “Dramatic Monologue” is written by -
=Robert Browning
157. “David Copperfield” is written by -
=Charlea Dickens
158. “The New Arabian Night” is written by -
=R.L. Stevenson
159. “Heart Of Darkness” is written by -
=Joseph Conrad
160. “A Passage to India/ Where Angels Fear to Tread” is written by -
=E.M. Foster
161. “Of Human Bondage” is written by -
=Somerset Maugham
162. “Ulysses” is written by -
=James joyce
163. “Lady Chatterly’s Lover/ Woman in Love” is written by -
=D.H. Lawrence
164. “Nineteen Eighty Four” is written by -
=George Orwell
165. “The Heart of the Matter/ The Power and Glory” is written by
=Graham Greene
166. “Lord of The Flies” is written by -
=William Golding
167. “The Waste Land” is written by -
=S.T. Eliot
168. “Usura” is written by -
=Ezra
169. Doctor’s Dilemma/ Ceaser and Cleopatra/ Man and Superman is written by
=G.B. Shaw
170. “End Game” is written by -
=Samuel Beckett
171. “A Farewell ao Arms/ The Old Man and The Sea” is written by -
=Ernest Hemingway
172. “Life an Mississipi” is written by -
=Mark Twain
173. “Moby Dick” is written by -
=Her Man Melville
174. “The Manson” is written by -
=William Faulkner
175. “The Gift of Magi/ Sixes and Sevens” is written by -
=O’Henry
176. “Human Knowledge/ Marriage and Morals” is written by -
=Bertrand Russel
177. “Death of a Salesman” is written by -
=Arther Miller
178. “The social contract” is written by -
=Rousseau

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